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...point he so nettled Reagan by pressing for excise taxes and defense cuts that the President took off his glasses, glared at his aide and asked, "If that's what you believe, then what in the hell are you doing here?" Says one colleague: "Baker has thrown in the towel" on budget matters...
Even when Harvard opened its season in-auspiciously, losing to Northeastern. Regan maintained his characteristic optimism. "It's very pleasing to have someone as captain who's not going to throw the towel in, "Haggarty points out. The Crimson went on to win its next four meets, including an unexpected victory over perennial distance power Columbia...
...archbishop simply threw in the towel. Since 1975, Valerian Trifa, head of the 35,000-member Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, has faced Justice Department charges that during World War II he led an anti-Semitic group in Rumania and incited riots that led to the deaths of hundreds of Christians and Jews. In 1980, the archbishop gave up his U.S. citizenship, acquired in 1957, rather than face trial on the allegations. Last week in Detroit, in the midst of a deportation trial that was to air the charges, the prelate abruptly agreed to leave the U.S. Justice dropped charges...
...number of minor repair jobs--ranging from installing storm windows to reattaching towel racks--will continue throughout the week, meaning that a flurry of work will continue as students get settled...
...u.C.L.A. researchers have reported that herpes viruses can live on towels for up to 72 hr. and on toilet seats for at least four. In one test, a seat used by a woman with thigh lesions showed live herpes viruses 90 min. later. But most doctors down-play the U.C.L.A. study. Dr. Harold Kessler of Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's, in Chicago, says herpetics should use their own towels, though the chances of passing on the infection via a towel are only about 1%. The virus dies so fast on a toilet seat, he says, that the risk of infection...